Question 1

Which of the following best illustrates the social-psychological concept of a social group?

Accepted Answer

Deliberating members of a 12-person jury

Question 2

A sports team agrees, 'We will not talk about other members behind their backs and we will never divulge one another’s secrets.' This statement is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A group norm

Question 3

Rashida refuses to follow important social norms of her group. According to social psychology, she will likely be:

Accepted Answer

Shunned by the other group members

Question 4

One cost of roles in groups is that individuals can lose their personal identities. What is a second cost?

Accepted Answer

Expectations can lower the opportunities that are available to some people.

Question 5

What is the primary benefit of having diversity within a group?

Accepted Answer

Different perspectives lead to improved problem solving.

Question 6

Which of the following is the minimum requirement for social facilitation to occur?

Accepted Answer

The mere presence of others.

Question 7

Tim is washing his car as his neighbors watch. According to social facilitation theory, his performance will likely:

Accepted Answer

Improve, because washing a car is a simple task for him.

Question 8

A professor wants to assign a simple group project. To minimize social loafing, what should they do?

Accepted Answer

Assign individual grades to students.

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a reason that deindividuation could lead to impulsive or destructive acts?

Accepted Answer

Deindividuation always increases physiological arousal and, consequently, aggressiveness.

Question 10

Adam is part of a group to increase blood donations, but his expertise in persuasion is ignored. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Process loss

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT an antecedent of groupthink?

Accepted Answer

Social roles

Question 12

After a school board meeting, members become more strongly in favor of a proposal than before. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Group polarization

Question 13

Why do group members tend to be homogeneous?

Accepted Answer

Many groups attract people who are similar and groups tend to operate in ways that encourage similarity in the members.

Question 14

Which of the following best defines deindividuation?

Accepted Answer

The loosening of normal constraints on behaviour when people are in a group, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts

Question 15

Which leadership style is most concerned with the feelings and relationships among workers?

Accepted Answer

Relationship-oriented leader

Question 16

A group of five people must address and stuff 1,000 envelopes. Research on social loafing suggests it is better to:

Accepted Answer

Give each person 200 envelopes to address and stuff alone.

Question 17

Which of the following is a key difference between social facilitation and social loafing?

Accepted Answer

In social facilitation, individual performance can be evaluated; in social loafing, it cannot.

Question 18

Which of the following best represents the three theories explaining the role of arousal in social facilitation?

Accepted Answer

Others make us alert; apprehension about being evaluated; and others are distracting

Question 19

Which of the following is the best example of deindividuation?

Accepted Answer

Concertgoers trampling one another to secure good seats

Question 20

Which of the following best describes groupthink?

Accepted Answer

A kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner

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